1 00:00:07,242 --> 00:00:11,345 Today could be the day where we all get rich. 2 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:16,069 [narrator] In Alaska's Chilkat Mountains, winter approaches fast. 3 00:00:17,138 --> 00:00:19,897 [Dustin] Need to be in the water already. 4 00:00:19,932 --> 00:00:23,035 [narrator] But Dustin Hurt is finally on virgin ground. 5 00:00:24,276 --> 00:00:26,001 And hopefully, there's some more gold down there. 6 00:00:26,932 --> 00:00:27,932 If not, I'm in trouble. 7 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:29,690 I need more gold. 8 00:00:29,725 --> 00:00:31,380 [narrator] To save his season, 9 00:00:31,414 --> 00:00:35,276 he's gambled on hitting a pile of gold at the bottom of the Chute. 10 00:00:37,173 --> 00:00:39,001 [Carlos] All right, you're good! 11 00:00:39,035 --> 00:00:40,656 [Dustin on radio] All right, I'm going diving, man. 12 00:00:40,690 --> 00:00:42,138 [Wes on radio] All right, man. Have a great dive. 13 00:00:42,173 --> 00:00:43,035 [Dustin] Yeah. 14 00:00:44,449 --> 00:00:45,794 All right, going in. 15 00:00:48,552 --> 00:00:50,656 Yeah, come on down! 16 00:00:50,690 --> 00:00:51,828 [Wes] How does it look down there? 17 00:00:51,863 --> 00:00:53,345 [Dustin] Ah, it's beautiful. 18 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:57,173 It just keeps going down, it's undercut on the upstream side. 19 00:00:57,207 --> 00:00:59,449 If you tried to make a natural catch, 20 00:00:59,483 --> 00:01:02,173 this is what it would look like, right here. 21 00:01:02,207 --> 00:01:03,897 Better cross your fingers. 22 00:01:03,932 --> 00:01:07,828 Today, Dustin is going to try his hardest 23 00:01:07,863 --> 00:01:10,414 to get down to the bottom, to finish this hole. 24 00:01:10,449 --> 00:01:14,345 We put all our eggs in the basket on this dig. 25 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:17,828 This is our last chance, man, for a good winter. 26 00:01:17,863 --> 00:01:21,104 [Dustin] Dude, it just keeps going straight the hell down. 27 00:01:22,345 --> 00:01:25,725 I mean, there's boulders everywhere. 28 00:01:25,759 --> 00:01:27,897 [Wes] That is gonna become a problem. 29 00:01:27,932 --> 00:01:31,035 Right now, we've got large boulders spread out in a pretty good area, 30 00:01:31,069 --> 00:01:32,897 and we don't know how deep the hole is 31 00:01:32,932 --> 00:01:35,656 because these are boulders sitting on top of boulders. 32 00:01:35,690 --> 00:01:40,311 So it could go down 3 feet, it could go down 10 feet, we just don't know. 33 00:01:41,794 --> 00:01:43,794 [Dustin] All right, big*bleep* rock. 34 00:01:43,828 --> 00:01:45,725 I'mma drill some holes and do a blast. 35 00:01:47,001 --> 00:01:47,863 [Wes] Copy that. 36 00:01:52,173 --> 00:01:54,001 [Dustin] Oh, what the*bleep* is that? 37 00:01:55,104 --> 00:01:57,725 Stop. Stop, something's happening. 38 00:01:57,759 --> 00:01:59,759 [Carlos] What the *bleep* is going on here? 39 00:01:59,794 --> 00:02:01,897 The water's all dirty now. 40 00:02:01,932 --> 00:02:03,932 [Dustin] Oh, yeah, water just turned dark. 41 00:02:03,966 --> 00:02:06,518 Ugh, you're kidding me. 42 00:02:06,552 --> 00:02:10,690 I can't see anything at all, it's a nightmare down here right now. 43 00:02:13,966 --> 00:02:15,621 [Dustin] Just trying to beat the clock here. 44 00:02:15,656 --> 00:02:17,104 [Carlos] What a *bleep* show, dude. 45 00:02:17,138 --> 00:02:18,311 I just don't want to die. 46 00:02:18,345 --> 00:02:19,759 - [Stamper] There it goes. - [Kayla] Watch out. Watch out. 47 00:02:19,794 --> 00:02:21,966 [Wes] Engine quit, just cut the air. Diver up, diver up! 48 00:02:22,001 --> 00:02:23,242 [Dustin] Go, go, go, go! 49 00:02:23,276 --> 00:02:24,483 - [James] Whoa! - [man] Get out of there! 50 00:02:27,242 --> 00:02:30,035 We can't stop dredging every time they want to blow up a rock. 51 00:02:30,069 --> 00:02:31,863 Yeah, don't take that attitude with me! 52 00:02:31,897 --> 00:02:33,345 [Paul] There's no sense for us to stay here! 53 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:34,897 [Dustin] Right now, dead in the water. 54 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:39,483 [James] It might be way deeper than I think it is. 55 00:02:39,518 --> 00:02:42,104 - [Wes] See if Carlos remembers what gold looks like. - [Carlos] Yeah, right? 56 00:02:42,138 --> 00:02:44,242 [Wes] Gonna be more gold in there than we've ever seen. 57 00:02:44,276 --> 00:02:46,380 After all this *bleep*, it's paying off. 58 00:02:46,414 --> 00:02:49,966 If there's gold at the bottom, it'll be worth every bit of the struggle. 59 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:57,074 60 00:02:59,001 --> 00:03:00,621 [Scott] All right, everybody, you guys ready? 61 00:03:00,656 --> 00:03:02,242 We're gonna have us a magnificent day. 62 00:03:02,276 --> 00:03:07,311 Sun's out, water's clear and sparkly, and T-minus three minutes. 63 00:03:07,345 --> 00:03:09,311 All right, good to go. 64 00:03:11,104 --> 00:03:12,552 [on radio] Diver in the water. 65 00:03:14,001 --> 00:03:14,966 [laughing] 66 00:03:15,001 --> 00:03:18,138 Whoo! I give that a nine, a strong nine. 67 00:03:19,552 --> 00:03:21,173 [narrator] The end of the season looming, 68 00:03:21,207 --> 00:03:23,414 Kayla pushes her crew hard 69 00:03:23,449 --> 00:03:26,794 and already has her first diver, Scott, in the water. 70 00:03:28,414 --> 00:03:31,242 We need to start finding more gold this late in the season, 71 00:03:31,276 --> 00:03:33,449 you know, we don't have that much gold yet. 72 00:03:33,483 --> 00:03:35,690 So as long as we don't run into any *bleep*, 73 00:03:35,725 --> 00:03:37,690 we should be able to get some more depth. 74 00:03:39,173 --> 00:03:40,759 [narrator] At the start of the season, 75 00:03:40,794 --> 00:03:44,759 Kayla's crew were on the fast track and the first to find gold. 76 00:03:46,380 --> 00:03:49,311 That is some rich ground, some very rich ground. 77 00:03:49,345 --> 00:03:51,621 [Kayla] That's a good little pile right there. 78 00:03:51,656 --> 00:03:53,518 [narrator] Their good fortune didn't last. 79 00:03:55,104 --> 00:03:57,483 This is not diveable water right now. 80 00:03:57,518 --> 00:03:59,966 - [on radio] Is that drill working? - [Scott] No, it's not. 81 00:04:00,001 --> 00:04:01,725 What the-- 82 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:04,483 All this *bleep* just wants to break all the time. 83 00:04:04,518 --> 00:04:05,932 Whoa, whoa, watch out! 84 00:04:05,966 --> 00:04:07,690 [man] Run! Run! 85 00:04:07,725 --> 00:04:11,587 [narrator] Now, winter could shut them down in less than a month, 86 00:04:11,621 --> 00:04:13,794 before they get to bedrock. 87 00:04:15,897 --> 00:04:17,966 Today, we're gonna get two divers in the water. 88 00:04:18,001 --> 00:04:21,966 We should be able to do a lot of dredging and move a lot of material. 89 00:04:22,001 --> 00:04:24,276 So hopefully, we should get some good depth going today. 90 00:04:24,311 --> 00:04:26,138 [Paul] This should be a dredging day. 91 00:04:26,173 --> 00:04:29,932 We should put a lot of material through the box and hopefully find some gold. 92 00:04:29,966 --> 00:04:31,932 - [Kayla on radio] How you doing down there, Scott? - [Scott] I'm good. 93 00:04:31,966 --> 00:04:34,035 I'm just dredging up some stuff. 94 00:04:34,069 --> 00:04:36,276 [Paul] Can't believe how much silt's down there right now. 95 00:04:36,311 --> 00:04:38,518 [Scott] Yeah. 96 00:04:38,552 --> 00:04:42,725 [narrator] Kayla's dive hole is now 16 feet deep. 97 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:47,242 They've hit a new layer of fine silt, packed around shale boulders 98 00:04:47,276 --> 00:04:51,690 that stand between them and the bedrock, around 20 feet deep, 99 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:56,518 where they expect to uncover a large deposit of gold. 100 00:04:58,345 --> 00:05:00,552 [Paul] I can't get over how much muddy water that made. 101 00:05:00,587 --> 00:05:03,207 [Scott] Wow, my vis just blacked out completely. 102 00:05:03,242 --> 00:05:05,242 I'm gonna dredge a little bit down here. 103 00:05:05,276 --> 00:05:06,828 [Paul] Let's work through this murk-up. 104 00:05:06,863 --> 00:05:08,207 [Scott] Copy that. 105 00:05:23,483 --> 00:05:25,069 [Dustin on radio] It just keeps going down. 106 00:05:25,104 --> 00:05:27,069 Every time I think I'm getting headway, 107 00:05:27,104 --> 00:05:30,035 there's another gigantic boulder down there. 108 00:05:30,069 --> 00:05:35,552 [narrator] At the Chute, Dustin is one hour into his dive on virgin ground. 109 00:05:35,587 --> 00:05:38,173 There's boulders upon boulders, man, holy moly. 110 00:05:38,207 --> 00:05:40,690 [Dustin] Yeah, every rock will not move. 111 00:05:42,069 --> 00:05:45,690 [narrator] 14 feet below the furious torrent, 112 00:05:45,725 --> 00:05:49,863 Dustin's path to what he believes is a life-changing pile of gold 113 00:05:49,897 --> 00:05:52,759 is blocked by large boulders. 114 00:05:53,725 --> 00:05:56,897 He must drill and blast each one, 115 00:05:56,932 --> 00:05:59,863 if he is ever going to reach the bedrock bonanza. 116 00:06:00,966 --> 00:06:03,173 [Dustin] I'mma drill some holes and do a blast. 117 00:06:05,276 --> 00:06:07,897 Oh, what the*bleep* is that? 118 00:06:07,932 --> 00:06:12,483 I thought everything would be*bleep* down here, now I can't see. 119 00:06:12,518 --> 00:06:14,173 [Wes] Yeah, the water's murking out now. 120 00:06:14,207 --> 00:06:16,483 [Carlos] Whoa! 121 00:06:16,518 --> 00:06:17,897 [Dustin] I got a feeling 122 00:06:17,932 --> 00:06:20,414 that that they started up their dredge upstream just now. 123 00:06:20,449 --> 00:06:22,552 It's*bleep* murked up everything. 124 00:06:22,587 --> 00:06:25,518 [Wes] It's gonna be hard now, since you don't have no vis. 125 00:06:25,552 --> 00:06:29,035 [Dustin] I can't see anything at all, I'm absolutely blind. 126 00:06:29,069 --> 00:06:32,104 As that saying goes, *bleep* runs downhill. 127 00:06:33,345 --> 00:06:34,863 We're downhill, brother. 128 00:06:34,897 --> 00:06:38,725 So anything they do upstream, we get the small end of the deal with that. 129 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:40,242 They must be dredging some stuff 130 00:06:40,276 --> 00:06:41,449 that's got a bunch of silt in it 131 00:06:41,483 --> 00:06:43,794 because we don't have any vis whatsoever. 132 00:06:43,828 --> 00:06:46,035 Can't get the charges in the holes. 133 00:06:46,069 --> 00:06:47,621 Can't expand the rocks. 134 00:06:47,656 --> 00:06:50,380 [Dustin] Hey, Wes, can you just maybe go get on a radio 135 00:06:50,414 --> 00:06:54,794 and ask them to drill for a little while, instead of digging silt? 136 00:06:54,828 --> 00:06:57,311 I mean, if they could just drill for a little while, 137 00:06:57,345 --> 00:06:58,828 we could actually get this finished. 138 00:06:58,863 --> 00:07:02,173 If not, it's gonna take us another week-and-a-half, like this. 139 00:07:02,207 --> 00:07:03,104 [Wes] Okay, copy. 140 00:07:03,897 --> 00:07:06,242 Wes to House Rock. 141 00:07:07,001 --> 00:07:08,449 [on radio] Wes to House Rock. 142 00:07:08,483 --> 00:07:09,828 [Paul] Yeah, go ahead. 143 00:07:09,863 --> 00:07:11,966 Is there any way you guys can do some drilling 144 00:07:12,001 --> 00:07:13,656 on some rocks or something right now? 145 00:07:13,690 --> 00:07:15,690 The creek just went solid murky, 146 00:07:15,725 --> 00:07:17,449 where you can't see in front of your hand right now. 147 00:07:17,483 --> 00:07:19,863 We're down at 15 feet, trying to drill holes. 148 00:07:19,897 --> 00:07:21,897 We need just a little bit of time. 149 00:07:21,932 --> 00:07:24,276 - [Kayla] We're not gonna stop working. - [Paul] Yep. 150 00:07:24,311 --> 00:07:27,035 We're dead in the water until we can crack some rocks. 151 00:07:28,863 --> 00:07:31,242 No problem, we'll just pack it up and head home. 152 00:07:33,518 --> 00:07:34,966 [Paul laughs] 153 00:07:37,276 --> 00:07:39,242 Yeah, don't take that attitude with me, 154 00:07:39,276 --> 00:07:42,380 I'm just asking you for 30 minutes for you to do something else. 155 00:07:42,414 --> 00:07:44,932 You're gonna get like that, it's gonna get bad. 156 00:07:44,966 --> 00:07:48,035 [Paul] We just can't stop what we're doing all the time, 157 00:07:48,069 --> 00:07:50,966 we're here for the same goal and that's to get to the bottom and find gold. 158 00:07:51,863 --> 00:07:55,552 [bleeping] That *bleep*... 159 00:07:57,587 --> 00:08:00,001 [Paul] We're all here for the same mission, 160 00:08:00,035 --> 00:08:02,035 but if they're going to tell us to stop dredging, 161 00:08:02,069 --> 00:08:04,035 there's no sense for us to stay here. 162 00:08:04,069 --> 00:08:05,828 Maybe we should pack our *bleep* up and go. 163 00:08:05,863 --> 00:08:08,725 It's just ridiculous that we have to stop dredging. 164 00:08:08,759 --> 00:08:12,311 We're here to find gold. If we can't dredge, we're not gonna find the gold. 165 00:08:12,345 --> 00:08:15,104 They're the ones that chose the spot downstream of us. 166 00:08:15,138 --> 00:08:16,828 *bleep* that. I'll get suited up. 167 00:08:16,863 --> 00:08:18,587 I'll get in the water and help Scott. 168 00:08:18,621 --> 00:08:21,414 [narrator] Ignoring his brother's plea, 169 00:08:21,449 --> 00:08:25,207 Paul prepares to join Scott and push through the layer of silt. 170 00:08:26,690 --> 00:08:28,207 [Paul on radio] All right, Scott, where you at? 171 00:08:29,932 --> 00:08:31,828 [Scott] Look for the biggest rock. 172 00:08:32,518 --> 00:08:33,690 [Paul] Oh. 173 00:08:33,725 --> 00:08:34,897 [Scott] Hi! 174 00:08:34,932 --> 00:08:37,794 [narrator] Kayla's crew believe they need two divers 175 00:08:37,828 --> 00:08:40,311 and two dredges running every dive, 176 00:08:40,345 --> 00:08:43,794 if they are to hit bedrock gold by the end of the season. 177 00:08:45,207 --> 00:08:46,794 [Scott] Man, it's so hard-packed, 178 00:08:46,828 --> 00:08:49,587 the material on the backside of this shale boulder. 179 00:08:49,621 --> 00:08:51,621 [Paul] Yeah, probably lodged in by some of that clay. 180 00:08:51,656 --> 00:08:54,587 Yeah, all right. 181 00:08:54,621 --> 00:08:57,138 [Scott] I love this kind of dredging. 182 00:08:57,173 --> 00:09:00,414 [Paul] Make some dirty water for them guys, give them something to*bleep* about. 183 00:09:00,449 --> 00:09:02,311 [laughs] 184 00:09:03,932 --> 00:09:05,173 [Carlos] Holy moly, dude. 185 00:09:05,932 --> 00:09:07,552 Water got *bleep* again. 186 00:09:07,587 --> 00:09:10,759 [Wes] I know it's impossible to drill rocks when you can't see them. 187 00:09:10,794 --> 00:09:12,828 [Dustin] The water's turned to chocolate milk, 188 00:09:12,863 --> 00:09:18,725 and it's really hard to work the drills, powerheads and wires. 189 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:21,207 You can't see anything at all. 190 00:09:21,242 --> 00:09:24,069 [Wes] Man, whatever they're in is some nasty *bleep*, isn't it? 191 00:09:24,104 --> 00:09:27,656 They just gotta be on a silt layer or something. I don't know. 192 00:09:27,690 --> 00:09:31,276 [Dustin] All right, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm lost. 193 00:09:31,311 --> 00:09:34,656 [Wes] Well, the water has just really gone horrible. 194 00:09:34,690 --> 00:09:36,518 [Dustin] Not finding that rock. 195 00:09:37,863 --> 00:09:41,104 All right. I want to come up. 196 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:43,414 [Wes] Copy that. 197 00:09:43,449 --> 00:09:47,518 [narrator] Zero visibility makes it impossible to set blasters 198 00:09:47,552 --> 00:09:51,207 and dig any deeper towards bedrock gold. 199 00:09:51,242 --> 00:09:54,104 [Dustin] That turned into a *bleep* nightmare, real quick. 200 00:09:54,828 --> 00:09:56,311 What a *bleep* show, dude. 201 00:09:56,345 --> 00:09:59,242 [Dustin] Dude, it got bad. It got dangerous. 202 00:09:59,276 --> 00:10:01,001 [Carlos] I hear you, bro. 203 00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:04,380 There's huge boulders everywhere. 204 00:10:04,414 --> 00:10:07,828 It might be way deeper than I think it is. 205 00:10:07,863 --> 00:10:12,311 [narrator] Dustin's crew can't afford to lose a day of diving. 206 00:10:12,345 --> 00:10:16,587 If they don't get to bedrock, their season will be a bust. 207 00:10:16,621 --> 00:10:18,449 [Carlos] What are we looking like, man? 208 00:10:18,483 --> 00:10:20,621 [Dustin] No nuggs that I see. 209 00:10:21,552 --> 00:10:23,414 It's killing me, man. 210 00:10:23,449 --> 00:10:25,759 It's way too much effort for no gold. 211 00:10:29,725 --> 00:10:32,311 [Wes] Yeah, little chunky piece right there. 212 00:10:33,828 --> 00:10:35,621 There's a nice piece. 213 00:10:36,725 --> 00:10:38,449 There's another piece, right there. 214 00:10:38,483 --> 00:10:39,794 - [Dustin] That's it? - [Wes] That's it. 215 00:10:41,518 --> 00:10:43,518 So, three pieces. 216 00:10:43,552 --> 00:10:47,345 I haven't seen any gold go in that nozzle. 217 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:50,345 If you can't make a better catch for it, what the hell's going on? 218 00:10:52,932 --> 00:10:55,656 At this point, we should have seen some good gold. 219 00:10:55,690 --> 00:10:57,828 It's been a long damn season without gold 220 00:10:57,863 --> 00:11:01,932 and I'm starting to lose my patience for all of this stuff. 221 00:11:01,966 --> 00:11:03,932 [Wes] If it's still going down like you say, 222 00:11:03,966 --> 00:11:05,449 then there's boulders underneath there 223 00:11:05,483 --> 00:11:07,311 this could get better and better. 224 00:11:07,345 --> 00:11:11,345 [Dustin] It just doesn't seem like it's ever gonna end. 225 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:14,759 [Wes] It's gonna end with a bunch of *bleep* gold at the bottom. 226 00:11:14,794 --> 00:11:17,449 - I truly believe that. - I hope. I'm starting to lose my faith, man. 227 00:11:17,483 --> 00:11:20,276 My hope is starting to go away. I'm getting a little... 228 00:11:21,242 --> 00:11:23,242 ...little on that worried edge. 229 00:11:23,276 --> 00:11:24,449 Thank you, guys! 230 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:28,069 *bleep* rough, man. 231 00:11:29,552 --> 00:11:30,656 Getting old. 232 00:11:31,897 --> 00:11:33,932 Getting real old. 233 00:11:33,966 --> 00:11:36,725 [Wes] I don't think we got near as far as we thought we're gonna get today. 234 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:38,690 The water completely murked out, 235 00:11:38,725 --> 00:11:40,587 so we're gonna have to talk to Kayla's crew upstream 236 00:11:40,621 --> 00:11:42,035 and see if we can work out a plan, 237 00:11:42,069 --> 00:11:44,863 so we can both get clear water so we can make this happen. 238 00:11:55,104 --> 00:11:57,380 [Paul] Did we muddy the water up on you today? 239 00:11:57,414 --> 00:12:00,794 We drilled some holes to crack some rocks. *bleep* went black on us. 240 00:12:00,828 --> 00:12:04,552 So we gotta crack probably about 20 giant boulders. 241 00:12:04,587 --> 00:12:07,966 And if you black us out, really hard to do. 242 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:10,552 [Kayla] So, I don't know how we're gonna mediate that problem. 243 00:12:10,587 --> 00:12:14,207 Because we can't not work. 244 00:12:14,242 --> 00:12:16,242 [sighs] We'll have to come up with a plan for some of that. 245 00:12:17,483 --> 00:12:19,587 I can't drill blacked out. 246 00:12:19,621 --> 00:12:23,035 We're gonna come up with a kit for blacked out drilling tonight. 247 00:12:23,069 --> 00:12:24,863 [Paul] Okay. That sounds like a good idea. 248 00:12:24,897 --> 00:12:27,069 Let's try that and the other thing is, 249 00:12:27,104 --> 00:12:29,518 we're gonna try to get out there before you guys tomorrow, 250 00:12:29,552 --> 00:12:31,414 so we can see how many holes we can drill. 251 00:12:37,552 --> 00:12:39,173 [narrator] Up ahead... 252 00:12:39,207 --> 00:12:41,966 Every day in Alaska we have to have a little bit of chaos. 253 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:44,035 - [engine sputters and stops] - Hey, the engine quit. Engine quit. 254 00:12:44,069 --> 00:12:45,311 [man] Get out of there! 255 00:12:45,345 --> 00:12:47,518 I gotta get out of here. I gotta go. 256 00:12:47,552 --> 00:12:48,932 [Stamper] I have zero vis. 257 00:12:48,966 --> 00:12:49,966 You wanna get out? 258 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:51,897 [Stamper] I don't wanna die today. 259 00:12:51,932 --> 00:12:53,242 [Paul] It's way out of his element. 260 00:12:53,276 --> 00:12:55,414 Mark Stamper does not quit. 261 00:12:55,449 --> 00:12:58,242 - [Wes] Look at that gold. - [James] Oh, my *bleep*. 262 00:13:04,897 --> 00:13:06,621 [Dustin] Let's go get this done. 263 00:13:06,656 --> 00:13:08,104 All right. Let's get to work. 264 00:13:08,138 --> 00:13:10,276 Come on. Let's go! 265 00:13:10,311 --> 00:13:14,138 [narrator] At sunrise, Dustin and his crew race to the Chute... 266 00:13:15,311 --> 00:13:18,104 Desperate for a few hours of clear water. 267 00:13:19,518 --> 00:13:20,759 [Dustin] I want this thing running. 268 00:13:20,794 --> 00:13:23,345 - And I want him ready to get in the water now. - [Wes] Yep. 269 00:13:23,380 --> 00:13:24,794 [Dustin] This water's perfect, 270 00:13:24,828 --> 00:13:27,001 the other crew is not running yet. 271 00:13:27,035 --> 00:13:28,725 We gotta do some rock cracking. 272 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:30,966 And this is the perfect water for that. 273 00:13:31,001 --> 00:13:34,759 [narrator] Carlos has just a two-hour lead on Kayla's crew 274 00:13:34,794 --> 00:13:36,966 to drill holes in all the boulders. 275 00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:38,552 While he can still see them. 276 00:13:40,138 --> 00:13:42,794 [Carlos] Our first priority is to pop all those boulders, 277 00:13:42,828 --> 00:13:45,449 because soon as the other team starts their engines, 278 00:13:46,345 --> 00:13:48,725 they're gonna dirty up the water for us. 279 00:13:48,759 --> 00:13:51,759 That clear water that we have out there is going to go away. 280 00:13:52,345 --> 00:13:53,897 Fast. 281 00:13:53,932 --> 00:13:56,311 [Dustin] All right. Carlos is ready. Everything's running. 282 00:13:56,345 --> 00:13:57,483 Let's get him in the water. 283 00:14:04,311 --> 00:14:07,794 [on radio] Anything you need is gonna be a on a nozzle hose against this wall. 284 00:14:07,828 --> 00:14:09,483 [Carlos on radio] Okay. Yep. Yep. Good job. 285 00:14:09,518 --> 00:14:11,518 [Dustin] All right. 286 00:14:11,552 --> 00:14:13,656 - [Carlos] All right. - [Dustin] All right, you're free. 287 00:14:13,690 --> 00:14:14,725 [Dustin] I don't have you anymore. 288 00:14:14,759 --> 00:14:15,828 [Carlos] All right. 289 00:14:21,863 --> 00:14:23,069 [Carlos] Diver in. 290 00:14:23,794 --> 00:14:26,518 Oh, yeah. Whoo-hoo! 291 00:14:27,897 --> 00:14:29,725 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. 292 00:14:29,759 --> 00:14:32,518 All right, if you can manage to send me that fricking drill down? 293 00:14:32,552 --> 00:14:33,621 [Dustin] Copy that. 294 00:14:35,138 --> 00:14:37,104 Drill's down there. 295 00:14:37,138 --> 00:14:39,587 [Carlos] Got it. Oh, perfect, dude. 296 00:14:39,621 --> 00:14:42,449 All right, so, are we gonna drill a whole bunch and then do caps? 297 00:14:42,483 --> 00:14:43,621 [Carlos] Yeah. Yeah. 298 00:14:43,656 --> 00:14:46,380 I am going to fricking drill holes as much as I can. 299 00:14:46,414 --> 00:14:48,621 [Dustin] Okay. We'll give you a bunch of placeholders then. 300 00:14:48,656 --> 00:14:50,518 [Carlos] Oh, yeah. Put placeholders on them. 301 00:14:51,552 --> 00:14:53,104 I think that'll work, actually. 302 00:14:53,138 --> 00:14:55,035 That way he can see the orange tape. 303 00:14:55,069 --> 00:14:57,518 [Dustin] We know the water's gonna black out on us. 304 00:14:57,552 --> 00:15:00,242 So what we made was, every time you drill a hole, 305 00:15:00,276 --> 00:15:02,001 'cause you can't find it later, 306 00:15:02,035 --> 00:15:04,759 stab this in it and let it sit there, so you can go find it 307 00:15:04,794 --> 00:15:06,932 and put the powerheads in them later. 308 00:15:06,966 --> 00:15:10,242 'Cause if the water goes black, we need to be able to find the holes. 309 00:15:10,276 --> 00:15:11,932 Placeholders are down there. 310 00:15:11,966 --> 00:15:13,069 [Carlos] Let's go! 311 00:15:14,104 --> 00:15:15,932 [narrator] Carlos' mission... 312 00:15:15,966 --> 00:15:19,932 Drill all the holes in the boulders while the water's still clear. 313 00:15:21,932 --> 00:15:25,035 Then insert the high-vis rods, 314 00:15:25,069 --> 00:15:29,966 so that when Kayla's crew fill the creek with silt from their dredge, 315 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:32,380 Carlos can find each drill hole 316 00:15:32,414 --> 00:15:36,001 and insert the blasters to detonate the rock. 317 00:15:39,932 --> 00:15:40,863 [Carlos] Come on, let's go! 318 00:15:42,932 --> 00:15:44,138 [Carlos speaking indistinctly] 319 00:15:51,414 --> 00:15:52,345 All right. 320 00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:55,069 Ah, one hole. 321 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:07,242 Kayla's crew, as soon as they start dredging it, blacks out the water. 322 00:16:07,276 --> 00:16:09,242 And we gotta do everything by feel. 323 00:16:09,276 --> 00:16:12,173 That's really hard to do when you're doing technical stuff. 324 00:16:12,207 --> 00:16:14,035 Just trying to beat the clock here. 325 00:16:14,069 --> 00:16:17,587 We're gonna crack as many rocks as we can before the vis goes. 326 00:16:24,449 --> 00:16:26,414 [Scott] Wake up, McKinley! I'm coming for you. 327 00:16:29,690 --> 00:16:31,690 It's not bad-looking today, 328 00:16:31,725 --> 00:16:33,207 but it's gonna be *bleep* later. 329 00:16:33,242 --> 00:16:35,690 [narrator] Up-creek at House Rock, 330 00:16:35,725 --> 00:16:39,104 Kayla's crew can't wait on the sidelines a moment longer. 331 00:16:41,001 --> 00:16:42,966 [Paul] Dustin's team set up downstream of us. 332 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:44,794 So they should have known what was gonna happen. 333 00:16:44,828 --> 00:16:48,069 We can't stop dredging every time they wanna blow up a rock. 334 00:16:48,104 --> 00:16:52,138 [Scott] We've gotta get down to bedrock or we're not gonna make it this year. 335 00:16:52,173 --> 00:16:54,932 I didn't spend my entire summer away from my family, 336 00:16:54,966 --> 00:16:57,207 missing my kids, football games and everything. 337 00:16:57,242 --> 00:17:01,104 I didn't sacrifice all that not to get to bedrock and not to hit the mother lode. 338 00:17:01,138 --> 00:17:05,069 [narrator] Packed into the silt layer are two giant shale boulders. 339 00:17:06,690 --> 00:17:09,518 [Stamper] We have two huge boulders that need to be moved. 340 00:17:09,552 --> 00:17:11,483 Me and Scott, we're gonna... 341 00:17:11,518 --> 00:17:13,587 We're gonna get them moved, that's our objective. 342 00:17:13,621 --> 00:17:16,104 And when we come out of the water today, 343 00:17:16,138 --> 00:17:17,966 I think we're gonna be happy. 344 00:17:18,001 --> 00:17:19,725 [Paul] As soon as we get those rocks popped and out, 345 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:21,001 it's game on. 346 00:17:21,035 --> 00:17:23,345 We should be able to get to bedrock very soon. 347 00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:24,449 [Paul] Come on, let's go! 348 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:27,380 All right. 349 00:17:27,414 --> 00:17:29,069 [James] I think you're ready to go. 350 00:17:29,104 --> 00:17:31,104 [Scott] All right. Damn, these rocks are big. 351 00:17:31,897 --> 00:17:32,897 [Paul] Diver in the water. 352 00:17:37,276 --> 00:17:38,345 [Scott] Okay, so... 353 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:40,863 Let me see if I can crawl to the side over here. 354 00:17:44,138 --> 00:17:48,759 [bleeping] The size of that rock... [bleeping] 355 00:17:49,759 --> 00:17:51,794 We might need to try to crack this rock 356 00:17:51,828 --> 00:17:53,863 so we can get it out, it's so massive. 357 00:17:55,207 --> 00:17:57,311 [Scott] Paul, what's going on, man? 358 00:17:57,345 --> 00:17:59,173 [Paul] It's super dirty down here. 359 00:18:00,242 --> 00:18:02,207 [Stamper] Oh, man, something murked out in there. 360 00:18:02,242 --> 00:18:04,311 [Scott] Muddy water right there coming at you. 361 00:18:04,345 --> 00:18:06,759 [narrator] The silt layer is so fine 362 00:18:06,794 --> 00:18:10,587 that the slightest touch, and Stamper's diving blind. 363 00:18:12,138 --> 00:18:14,414 [Stamper] There's no visibility. This is horrible. 364 00:18:14,449 --> 00:18:16,345 [Kayla] The water's actually really murky. 365 00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:19,897 The visibility is next to nothing at this point. 366 00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:22,828 He can probably see, maybe, a foot in front of his face. 367 00:18:22,863 --> 00:18:25,001 [Stamper] I have zero vis. 368 00:18:25,035 --> 00:18:27,414 This is the dirtiest*bleep* I ever dove in. 369 00:18:27,449 --> 00:18:29,035 [Scott bleeps] scary. 370 00:18:30,414 --> 00:18:31,552 [Stamper] Oh, damn. 371 00:18:32,414 --> 00:18:33,656 [bleeping] 372 00:18:34,518 --> 00:18:35,587 It's bad, dude. 373 00:18:37,483 --> 00:18:38,621 [Scott] It ain't that bad. 374 00:18:39,345 --> 00:18:40,345 Come on, let's go. 375 00:18:42,932 --> 00:18:47,518 [narrator] Unlike Stamper, Scott has experience diving in zero-vis. 376 00:18:49,173 --> 00:18:52,966 [Scott] Yeah, the vis sucks, but, oh, well. We'll make do. 377 00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:56,828 [Stamper] I can't see nothing. I'm absolutely blinded. 378 00:18:56,863 --> 00:18:58,794 [Scott] Just take it slow and easy. That's all there is to it. 379 00:18:58,828 --> 00:19:01,380 Slow and smooth to the side, man. 380 00:19:01,414 --> 00:19:02,863 [Stamper] Are you down here yet, Scott? 381 00:19:02,897 --> 00:19:04,242 [Scott] Yeah, I'm down here. 382 00:19:04,276 --> 00:19:06,001 [Stamper] I see your light now. 383 00:19:06,035 --> 00:19:08,138 You're right behind me and I didn't even see you. 384 00:19:08,173 --> 00:19:09,759 [Scott] If it won't fall out of the wall, 385 00:19:09,794 --> 00:19:11,242 it's not gonna fall on your head. 386 00:19:11,276 --> 00:19:14,690 Jerk on everything you can. Make sure it's safe. And dig. 387 00:19:14,725 --> 00:19:17,380 That's how you dredge with no vis. 388 00:19:17,414 --> 00:19:19,932 Diving by braille is what Paul and I called it last year. 389 00:19:19,966 --> 00:19:20,932 Diving by braille. 390 00:19:20,966 --> 00:19:22,001 Know your way around. 391 00:19:24,345 --> 00:19:27,104 [Scott] All right, you big*bleep*, judgement day. 392 00:19:28,725 --> 00:19:30,104 [drilling] 393 00:19:30,828 --> 00:19:32,380 [Stamper] I hear something. 394 00:19:33,276 --> 00:19:35,276 Is that his drill? 395 00:19:35,311 --> 00:19:36,690 [Kayla] Yeah, I gave Scott the drill. 396 00:19:38,311 --> 00:19:41,449 [Stamper] I got the light on. I still don't know what the hell I'm doing. 397 00:19:41,483 --> 00:19:43,035 It's actually-- It's scary. 398 00:19:43,069 --> 00:19:46,035 [Paul] I don't know how to calm Stamper down in a situation like this. 399 00:19:46,069 --> 00:19:48,311 Diving in Nome, he's always had clear water. 400 00:19:48,345 --> 00:19:51,897 He's always had 20 foot of visibility, so a situation like this, 401 00:19:51,932 --> 00:19:53,242 it's way out of his element. 402 00:19:53,276 --> 00:19:55,656 But it really is terrifying underwater when you can't see 403 00:19:55,690 --> 00:19:57,449 the boulders that are around you and above you. 404 00:19:57,483 --> 00:19:59,311 Anybody would be terrified to be in that. 405 00:19:59,345 --> 00:20:01,656 You gotta be crazy to get in that water and not get scared. 406 00:20:01,690 --> 00:20:04,138 [Stamper] Where you at, Scott? 407 00:20:04,173 --> 00:20:06,552 [Scott] Same place I've been for the last 25 minutes. 408 00:20:07,759 --> 00:20:08,966 [Stamper] I can't find you. 409 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:10,932 [Kayla] How's the visibility down there? 410 00:20:10,966 --> 00:20:13,587 It's gotten quite a bit darker in the last few minutes. 411 00:20:13,621 --> 00:20:16,552 [Stamper] Absolutely zero vis. 412 00:20:16,587 --> 00:20:20,828 We have giant, massive boulders hanging above us. 413 00:20:20,863 --> 00:20:23,001 I can't see nothing. I'm scared something's gonna fall. 414 00:20:23,035 --> 00:20:24,897 Are you saying you wanna get out? 415 00:20:26,276 --> 00:20:28,518 [Stamper] I've got a bad feeling. 416 00:20:28,552 --> 00:20:31,725 What's freaking me out is I don't know what's around me. 417 00:20:31,759 --> 00:20:33,104 I don't know what I'm doing. 418 00:20:33,138 --> 00:20:35,242 Hey, guys, I don't think I can do this any longer. 419 00:20:45,518 --> 00:20:48,483 [Stamper on radio] I think I'm gonna... Call it for me. 420 00:20:48,518 --> 00:20:50,828 I don't wanna die today. 421 00:20:50,863 --> 00:20:55,518 [narrator] At House Rock, diving blind in silty water 422 00:20:55,552 --> 00:20:57,828 has pushed Stamper to his limit. 423 00:21:02,414 --> 00:21:04,035 [Stamper] I'm sorry, Scott. 424 00:21:04,069 --> 00:21:07,138 I mean, I've dove, you know, in the Bering Sea, but it's completely flat. 425 00:21:07,173 --> 00:21:09,035 This, you got boulders. 426 00:21:09,069 --> 00:21:12,483 I mean, right through the middle, as fast as that water's moving? 427 00:21:12,518 --> 00:21:15,932 [Scott] Yeah, no, you're good, dude. It takes a special kind of stupid to do this. 428 00:21:15,966 --> 00:21:17,483 [Kayla] Stamper, you getting out? 429 00:21:17,518 --> 00:21:18,725 - I'm out. - [Kayla] Okay. 430 00:21:20,828 --> 00:21:23,001 [narrator] Instead of a four-hour dive... 431 00:21:23,035 --> 00:21:25,587 [Stamper] Today was a disaster. 432 00:21:25,621 --> 00:21:28,587 [narrator] Stamper is out in less than 60 minutes. 433 00:21:30,828 --> 00:21:32,794 [Paul] You're disconnected. 434 00:21:34,449 --> 00:21:37,587 [Stamper] I had visibility of maybe less than a foot. 435 00:21:37,621 --> 00:21:40,483 I don't know what I'm under, mining. I just don't wanna die. 436 00:21:41,932 --> 00:21:43,207 And that's where I was headed. 437 00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:48,621 [Kayla] There's gonna be things in this job that are uncomfortable, 438 00:21:48,656 --> 00:21:51,863 but if you feel like your life is in danger, 439 00:21:51,897 --> 00:21:56,035 I would rather the diver get out, if they're feeling that way, than hurt themselves. 440 00:21:56,069 --> 00:21:59,035 [narrator] Now, on this own, Scott must dredge 441 00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:03,104 more of the silt from around the boulders, so that he can drill them. 442 00:22:04,414 --> 00:22:05,587 [Scott] All right. 443 00:22:05,621 --> 00:22:07,794 Paul, can you throttle up on the big dredge, please? 444 00:22:07,828 --> 00:22:10,104 - I'm gonna dredge a little bit down here. - [Paul] Copy that. 445 00:22:14,552 --> 00:22:15,311 [Scott] We're dredging. 446 00:22:16,483 --> 00:22:18,725 [Kayla] Hey, Scott, how's your vis? 447 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:21,104 [Scott] Yeah, it's a bit dark down here. 448 00:22:21,138 --> 00:22:23,001 [Kayla] It's like chocolate milk coming out of the box. 449 00:22:23,035 --> 00:22:24,380 [Paul] Sorry, Carlos! 450 00:22:34,173 --> 00:22:36,207 [Carlos] I'm done! 451 00:22:36,242 --> 00:22:39,414 - Three powerheads. - [Dustin] Copy that. Three. 452 00:22:39,449 --> 00:22:41,035 [narrator] Down at the Chute, 453 00:22:41,069 --> 00:22:44,483 Carlos' two-hour head start to drill rocks is up. 454 00:22:45,863 --> 00:22:47,621 [Dustin] I see your water starting to turn a little bit. 455 00:22:47,656 --> 00:22:49,035 - [Carlos] Yeah, yeah. - [Dustin] Worried for you. 456 00:22:49,069 --> 00:22:50,897 [Wes] Water went *bleep* again. 457 00:22:51,656 --> 00:22:54,138 Oh, man. Water turned. 458 00:22:54,173 --> 00:22:56,518 Yeah, he ain't gonna be able to see *bleep* now. 459 00:22:57,690 --> 00:23:00,656 [Carlos] It's pitch-black down here. Fricking dark. 460 00:23:00,690 --> 00:23:02,863 - Yeah, they're probably running up there. - [Carlos] Yeah. 461 00:23:02,897 --> 00:23:05,173 Holy moly, dude! 462 00:23:05,207 --> 00:23:08,001 [narrator] Visibility now near zero, 463 00:23:08,035 --> 00:23:14,001 Carlos' only hope of setting the blasters is if he can find the high-vis rods. 464 00:23:14,035 --> 00:23:17,932 Being that they're muddying up our water upstream, we had to come with a... 465 00:23:18,863 --> 00:23:22,483 in-the-dark, blindfolded way to do this. 466 00:23:22,518 --> 00:23:26,897 So, we came up with some sticks, holders, with orange tips on them, 467 00:23:26,932 --> 00:23:28,518 so every time he drills a hole, 468 00:23:28,552 --> 00:23:30,966 he puts a stick in it with an orange stick out of it, 469 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:32,552 so he can come find that hole again. 470 00:23:32,587 --> 00:23:35,207 Otherwise, vanished forever. 471 00:23:35,242 --> 00:23:36,552 It's getting dark now. 472 00:23:37,794 --> 00:23:39,311 It's working out for him. 473 00:23:39,345 --> 00:23:40,656 [Carlos] Got it. 474 00:23:42,414 --> 00:23:44,242 Fricking beautiful, man. 475 00:23:52,035 --> 00:23:55,380 All right, all powerheads are connected. Diver coming up. 476 00:23:55,414 --> 00:23:57,138 [Dustin] Copy that. Coming up. 477 00:23:58,173 --> 00:23:59,518 [Carlos] All right. 478 00:23:59,552 --> 00:24:01,001 [Dustin] Okay, you good? 479 00:24:01,035 --> 00:24:02,380 [Carlos] My*bleep*, man. 480 00:24:02,414 --> 00:24:04,621 - [Wes] All right. Going hot, going hot. - [Dustin] Going hot. 481 00:24:04,656 --> 00:24:05,863 [Carlos] Yep. 482 00:24:05,897 --> 00:24:08,725 - [Dustin] Going hot, and... - Two... One... 483 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,897 [explosions] 484 00:24:11,932 --> 00:24:14,069 - [all cheer] - [Dustin] That was a good one, man. 485 00:24:14,104 --> 00:24:15,794 [Carlos] Holy crap, man! 486 00:24:17,104 --> 00:24:19,035 Holy moly![laughs] 487 00:24:21,725 --> 00:24:23,725 [Dustin] How's it looking, man? 488 00:24:26,380 --> 00:24:29,311 [Carlos laughing] Oh, yeah! 489 00:24:29,345 --> 00:24:31,138 Good job. Good job, guys. 490 00:24:31,173 --> 00:24:33,725 I think we got a great system now, man. 491 00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:37,414 [narrator] The high-vis rods are a simple solution, 492 00:24:37,449 --> 00:24:39,932 but crucial to getting deeper at the Chute, 493 00:24:39,966 --> 00:24:42,414 while Kayla's crew dredge up-creek. 494 00:24:43,863 --> 00:24:45,552 [Carlos] It's cracking, dude. It's cracking. 495 00:24:45,587 --> 00:24:47,138 It makes my life a lot easier, man. 496 00:24:47,173 --> 00:24:49,794 [Dustin] Hell, yeah. Break everything you can down there, man. 497 00:24:49,828 --> 00:24:51,966 [Carlos] We got a lot of blasted rocks, man. 498 00:24:52,001 --> 00:24:55,207 But I'm not gonna get no depth today. No depth. 499 00:24:55,242 --> 00:24:56,725 It's just a lot of cleanup. 500 00:24:56,759 --> 00:24:59,587 [Dustin] Looks like that's all the rock cracking we're doing for today. 501 00:24:59,621 --> 00:25:01,104 [Carlos] We'll call it a day, gents. 502 00:25:01,966 --> 00:25:03,173 [Dustin] Sounds good to me, man. 503 00:25:03,207 --> 00:25:07,345 [narrator] After a five-hour battle, at times diving blind, 504 00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:10,656 Carlos has blasted apart the boulders, 505 00:25:10,690 --> 00:25:14,173 edging them closer to bedrock gold. 506 00:25:16,483 --> 00:25:18,794 Oh, yeah. Fricking water got crazy, huh? 507 00:25:18,828 --> 00:25:20,587 - [Dustin] Yeah, it looked bad, huh? - Yeah, it did. 508 00:25:22,001 --> 00:25:23,690 Aw, yeah! Thank you, guys. 509 00:25:23,725 --> 00:25:26,069 - [James laughing] - [Dustin] Yeah. 510 00:25:26,104 --> 00:25:29,173 [Dustin] Carlos cracked a whole bunch of rocks today and did a great job. 511 00:25:29,207 --> 00:25:31,690 He got rid of a whole bunch of big boulders 512 00:25:31,725 --> 00:25:33,897 that we couldn't lift up or couldn't drag out. 513 00:25:33,932 --> 00:25:36,966 We have a lot of effort and hopes and dreams into this hole. 514 00:25:37,001 --> 00:25:38,794 But, if there's gold at the bottom, 515 00:25:38,828 --> 00:25:41,035 it'll be worth every bit of the struggle. 516 00:25:50,828 --> 00:25:53,001 [Scott on radio] Oh,*bleep*, man. 517 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:56,897 I just can't tell when a rock's between my legs. 518 00:25:56,932 --> 00:26:00,518 One of the many hazards of diving when you can't see*bleep*. 519 00:26:00,552 --> 00:26:04,173 [narrator] At House Rock, Stamper has quit his dive, 520 00:26:04,207 --> 00:26:07,069 overcome by fear, diving blind. 521 00:26:08,932 --> 00:26:11,518 [Scott] All right, I'm gonna go back to breaking this*bleep* apart. 522 00:26:11,552 --> 00:26:12,656 [Paul] Let's get it done. 523 00:26:13,690 --> 00:26:15,725 [narrator] Despite the poor visibility, 524 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:19,587 Scott has managed to drill blast holes in the giant rocks. 525 00:26:21,552 --> 00:26:24,345 - Charges in place. I'm coming up. - [Kayla] All righty. 526 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:29,552 Three... Two... One... Fire in the hole. 527 00:26:29,587 --> 00:26:31,759 - [explosion] - [Kayla] I felt that one. 528 00:26:33,207 --> 00:26:35,242 All clear. You're good to go. 529 00:26:35,276 --> 00:26:38,207 I see a bunch of murkwater coming up. What happened? 530 00:26:38,242 --> 00:26:39,863 [Scott] I'm trying to figure that out. 531 00:26:39,897 --> 00:26:43,276 It definitely blasted. Shale's the worst one to blast. 532 00:26:43,311 --> 00:26:45,414 It might have blown out the bottom. 533 00:26:45,449 --> 00:26:47,207 [Stamper] That's a big *bleep* problem. 534 00:26:47,242 --> 00:26:49,794 [Scott] Yeah, I gotta see this thing come out. 535 00:26:49,828 --> 00:26:54,897 [grunting] Argh! Ow! 536 00:26:54,932 --> 00:26:56,483 - [Paul] You all right? - [Scott groans] 537 00:26:57,587 --> 00:26:59,207 I just pulled something in my leg. 538 00:26:59,242 --> 00:27:00,690 [Kayla] You okay, Scott? 539 00:27:00,725 --> 00:27:02,794 [Scott] Oh, that *bleep* hurts. 540 00:27:02,828 --> 00:27:04,001 Do you need to come up? 541 00:27:04,794 --> 00:27:07,207 [Scott] I'm coming up. 542 00:27:07,242 --> 00:27:10,587 [narrator] Unable to move the giant boulder on his own, 543 00:27:10,621 --> 00:27:16,242 Scott is forced to call time on his dive, after four hours of working solo. 544 00:27:16,276 --> 00:27:18,035 [grunts] 545 00:27:18,069 --> 00:27:20,966 [Paul] There's a lot of stuff down there for one diver to really deal with right now. 546 00:27:21,001 --> 00:27:24,001 We need two divers in the water at all times, so... 547 00:27:24,035 --> 00:27:26,035 If you're not comfortable down there, it could be bad. 548 00:27:26,069 --> 00:27:28,518 It could be real bad. And it just slows us way down. 549 00:27:28,552 --> 00:27:29,483 And we're running out of time. 550 00:27:29,518 --> 00:27:31,897 [Scott] Me being the dumb *bleep* that I am, 551 00:27:31,932 --> 00:27:34,725 decided that it would be a great idea 552 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:37,828 to try and lift the 6,000-pound boulder. 553 00:27:37,863 --> 00:27:39,207 Pulled my hamstring. 554 00:27:39,242 --> 00:27:41,897 I can feel it all the way down pulled into my calf. 555 00:27:41,932 --> 00:27:44,863 The hike out today is gonna be a nightmare. 556 00:27:44,897 --> 00:27:47,311 We can't afford to keep having short dive days every day. 557 00:27:47,345 --> 00:27:49,345 It's getting late in the season. 558 00:27:49,380 --> 00:27:51,932 We definitely haven't found enough gold to make it worthwhile. 559 00:27:51,966 --> 00:27:54,932 So we can't afford to be down a diver right now. 560 00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:04,828 [Dustin] Oh, okay. 561 00:28:05,587 --> 00:28:06,380 All right. 562 00:28:07,276 --> 00:28:08,035 See you soon. 563 00:28:09,414 --> 00:28:11,897 [narrator] After receiving an urgent phone call, 564 00:28:11,932 --> 00:28:16,380 Dustin must make the last flight out of Haines today to deal with business. 565 00:28:17,242 --> 00:28:18,828 [Dustin] Is that everybody's gear? 566 00:28:18,863 --> 00:28:21,069 [narrator] But is hopeful that they'll finally hit 567 00:28:21,104 --> 00:28:23,759 the payday before his sudden departure. 568 00:28:25,069 --> 00:28:29,276 Today, James is gonna dive and I believe... 569 00:28:29,311 --> 00:28:32,656 ♪ There's gonna be a bunch of fat nuggs down there! ♪ 570 00:28:32,690 --> 00:28:34,794 I sure hope so, man. 571 00:28:34,828 --> 00:28:37,483 [Dustin] Nothing to it, but to do it. Ready? Let's go. 572 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,138 This thing goes down so easy now. 573 00:28:42,173 --> 00:28:44,828 [Wes] We should start finding gold underneath these boulders 574 00:28:44,863 --> 00:28:47,552 because they're starting to get large and... 575 00:28:47,587 --> 00:28:51,069 They've had to have been there for a really, really long time, so, 576 00:28:51,104 --> 00:28:53,001 hopefully today, we're gonna start finding nuggets. 577 00:28:54,449 --> 00:28:55,276 Going to work. 578 00:28:56,794 --> 00:28:57,725 See you guys later! 579 00:29:09,311 --> 00:29:14,035 [Dustin] What we're diving in right now, it's a straight shaft, straight down. 580 00:29:14,069 --> 00:29:17,759 If you took a 12-foot pipe and stuck it up and down, 581 00:29:17,794 --> 00:29:20,380 that's what it looks like down there right now. 582 00:29:20,414 --> 00:29:23,035 And, hopefully, it's a great gold catch. 583 00:29:23,069 --> 00:29:24,863 We're about to find out, I think. 584 00:29:24,897 --> 00:29:26,863 [narrator] James' mission... 585 00:29:26,897 --> 00:29:30,104 Clear the remains of the boulders Carlos cracked. 586 00:29:30,138 --> 00:29:35,069 And dredge what should be gold-rich virgin ground beneath. 587 00:29:35,104 --> 00:29:36,656 [Dustin] Fire it up! 588 00:29:36,690 --> 00:29:38,242 [Carlos] Yeah, yeah, yeah! 589 00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:39,001 [Dustin] There we go. 590 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:43,828 Time to get a diver in the water. 591 00:29:48,483 --> 00:29:51,001 [James] I just wanna get in there before it murks out. 592 00:29:51,587 --> 00:29:52,483 [Dustin] That too tight? 593 00:29:52,518 --> 00:29:53,621 [James] Nope, that's good. 594 00:29:54,656 --> 00:29:55,828 [Dustin] All right. You're good. 595 00:29:57,897 --> 00:29:59,587 Today, 596 00:29:59,621 --> 00:30:03,104 if you could do me a huge favor and go and find me a whole bunch of gold 597 00:30:03,138 --> 00:30:05,725 and we could go home and celebrate and be rich. 598 00:30:06,656 --> 00:30:08,207 That'd be awesome. 599 00:30:08,242 --> 00:30:09,518 [on radio] All right, you're good to go. 600 00:30:09,552 --> 00:30:10,932 You have a damn good dive today. 601 00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:12,311 [James] Yeah! 602 00:30:15,173 --> 00:30:18,035 [narrator] James will be diving at 16 feet. 603 00:30:18,069 --> 00:30:20,414 The deepest they've ever been at the Chute. 604 00:30:21,932 --> 00:30:24,207 [James on radio] All right, where do I start? 605 00:30:24,242 --> 00:30:26,863 [Dustin] Just start cleaning up as many of those big rocks as you can. 606 00:30:26,897 --> 00:30:30,794 [James] There's this big split rock right here I'd like to get rid of first. 607 00:30:32,794 --> 00:30:36,207 Oh, yeah! Blew it to smithereens, man. 608 00:30:36,966 --> 00:30:39,001 Blew it to smithereens. 609 00:30:39,035 --> 00:30:41,311 [Dustin] Oh, I've seen smithereens, that's pretty awesome, man. 610 00:30:43,311 --> 00:30:44,656 James is gonna start cleaning up. 611 00:30:44,690 --> 00:30:46,897 If we're down to bigger rocks that we can lift, 612 00:30:46,932 --> 00:30:51,242 then, hopefully, with any luck, that's where the gold's gonna be sitting. 613 00:30:51,276 --> 00:30:53,794 Finally get down to a gold layer, is what my hope is. 614 00:30:55,311 --> 00:30:58,552 [James] All right, gonna be ready in a second. 615 00:31:00,552 --> 00:31:03,725 [Dustin] Hey, I gotta go to the tunnel for a second, if you need something, holler. 616 00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:04,794 [James] All right. 617 00:31:04,828 --> 00:31:06,380 Okay, I'm gonna take the basket. 618 00:31:10,449 --> 00:31:11,311 Pretty good-sized rock. 619 00:31:14,932 --> 00:31:16,276 [engine sputters and stops] 620 00:31:16,311 --> 00:31:18,759 Oh, *bleep*, the engine quit, engine quit. 621 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:21,311 James, James, up, up, up, up, come up, come up, come up! 622 00:31:21,345 --> 00:31:22,863 Carlos is coming over there to pull you up. 623 00:31:22,897 --> 00:31:24,380 [Dustin] Go, go, go, go, go, go, go! 624 00:31:24,414 --> 00:31:26,897 [Wes] Engine quit has cut the air. Diver up, diver up. 625 00:31:26,932 --> 00:31:28,069 [James] Whoa! 626 00:31:28,104 --> 00:31:28,966 [Wes] Bring him up! 627 00:31:29,621 --> 00:31:30,483 [Dustin] James! 628 00:31:39,656 --> 00:31:43,001 [Dustin on radio] Hey, I gotta go to the tunnel for a second, if you need something, holler. 629 00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:43,828 [James on radio] All right. 630 00:31:48,311 --> 00:31:50,690 [Wes] Oh, *bleep*, the engine quit, engine quit. 631 00:31:50,725 --> 00:31:53,276 James, James, up, up, up, up, come up, come up, come up! 632 00:31:53,311 --> 00:31:54,794 Carlos is coming over there to pull you up. 633 00:31:54,828 --> 00:31:56,311 [Dustin] Go, go, go, go, go, go, go! 634 00:31:56,345 --> 00:31:58,483 [Wes] Engine quit, just cut the air, diver up, diver up. 635 00:31:58,518 --> 00:31:59,414 [James] Whoa! 636 00:32:00,311 --> 00:32:01,242 [Wes] Bring him up! 637 00:32:01,828 --> 00:32:02,725 [Dustin] James! 638 00:32:03,518 --> 00:32:04,794 [Carlos] Hey! 639 00:32:04,828 --> 00:32:05,621 Hold on. 640 00:32:06,828 --> 00:32:08,276 Holy *bleep*! 641 00:32:08,311 --> 00:32:10,863 [Wes] Man, that scared the *bleep* out of me when that engine quit. 642 00:32:10,897 --> 00:32:12,414 [James] That scared the*bleep* out of me. 643 00:32:12,449 --> 00:32:16,276 [Wes] I can imagine. It just died. 644 00:32:16,311 --> 00:32:20,759 [narrator] After blasting boulders in zero visibility earlier in the week, 645 00:32:20,794 --> 00:32:23,449 Dustin's crew should be on the gold, 646 00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:26,621 but a faulty engine has halted James' dive. 647 00:32:29,069 --> 00:32:31,001 [Carlos] Sit down right here for a little bit, all right? 648 00:32:31,035 --> 00:32:33,449 Check the dredge 'cause it's made out of junk. 649 00:32:33,483 --> 00:32:36,138 [Wes] We'll check this out, see what's going on here. 650 00:32:36,173 --> 00:32:38,380 [James] That is a death trap right now. 651 00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:41,001 [narrator] If they can't fix the failing engine, 652 00:32:41,035 --> 00:32:44,414 then their dreams of hitting bedrock gold are over. 653 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:48,104 [James] That motor scares me, man. 654 00:32:48,138 --> 00:32:50,828 Junkyard*bleep* piece of*bleep* motor. 655 00:32:50,863 --> 00:32:52,311 [Wes] Gonna be one of those days, I guess. 656 00:32:58,311 --> 00:33:00,069 [Paul] Another beautiful day at McKinley Creek. 657 00:33:00,725 --> 00:33:01,690 [Stamper bleeps] rain. 658 00:33:02,518 --> 00:33:04,242 Screwing it up again. 659 00:33:04,276 --> 00:33:06,759 It's not as bad as it was, but it will be though. 660 00:33:07,552 --> 00:33:09,690 [narrator] At House Rock, 661 00:33:09,725 --> 00:33:15,552 Kayla's crew are within just 4 feet from where they expect to hit bedrock gold. 662 00:33:15,587 --> 00:33:18,380 But with barely any visibility in the silty creek, 663 00:33:19,001 --> 00:33:21,001 progress is hard-won. 664 00:33:22,242 --> 00:33:24,311 So, today I'm gonna be getting in the water. 665 00:33:24,345 --> 00:33:28,138 We still haven't hit bedrock. Hopefully it's not too much deeper. 666 00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:31,380 I think another 2 feet, 2, 3 feet and we're gonna be seeing bedrock. 667 00:33:31,414 --> 00:33:33,035 [Stamper] I hope so, dude. 668 00:33:33,069 --> 00:33:35,552 [narrator] After quitting his dive yesterday, 669 00:33:35,587 --> 00:33:39,138 Stamper has asked for a chance at redemption. 670 00:33:39,173 --> 00:33:43,035 I got up this morning, I'm back and I'm gonna dive again. 671 00:33:43,069 --> 00:33:44,242 Maybe I'll find some gold. 672 00:33:48,173 --> 00:33:49,069 [Paul] Let me hook you up. 673 00:33:49,104 --> 00:33:50,207 [Stamper on radio] Yep, let's do this. 674 00:33:50,242 --> 00:33:51,897 [Paul] All right. 675 00:33:51,932 --> 00:33:54,414 With this rain, it's gonna get murky pretty quick. 676 00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:56,104 [Stamper] Mark Stamper does not quit. 677 00:34:00,966 --> 00:34:04,104 God, it is so much more comfortable to flippin' havethe visibility. 678 00:34:04,138 --> 00:34:06,828 I can see the shadows above me, that's the thing. 679 00:34:08,276 --> 00:34:09,759 Oh, yeah, that's a drop-off. 680 00:34:11,138 --> 00:34:13,276 Holy*bleep*! 681 00:34:13,311 --> 00:34:14,690 This is deep! 682 00:34:15,518 --> 00:34:17,104 Holy crap! 683 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:18,138 [grunts] 684 00:34:20,828 --> 00:34:21,828 [Scott] Stamper, are you okay? 685 00:34:24,621 --> 00:34:25,966 Are you okay? 686 00:34:27,759 --> 00:34:30,552 [Stamper] All right. Whoo! 687 00:34:30,587 --> 00:34:31,587 Oh, I got turned around. 688 00:34:32,414 --> 00:34:34,207 All right, I'm heading down. 689 00:34:34,242 --> 00:34:36,897 [Paul] He's giving it all he's got and that's all I can ever ask of anybody. 690 00:34:36,932 --> 00:34:39,276 He's doing a good job. 691 00:34:39,311 --> 00:34:43,138 [narrator] Fighting his fears, Stamper, joined by Kayla, 692 00:34:43,173 --> 00:34:48,345 can tackle the giant shale boulders that block their path down to bedrock. 693 00:34:48,380 --> 00:34:50,621 [Stamper] Boss is coming, so no more sleeping*bleep*. 694 00:34:50,656 --> 00:34:51,483 [Kayla laughs] 695 00:34:54,621 --> 00:34:57,725 [Scott] All right, show these guys how to find some gold. 696 00:34:57,759 --> 00:34:59,966 [Kayla] Where's that shale boulder? 697 00:35:00,001 --> 00:35:00,966 [Stamper] It's right here. 698 00:35:02,311 --> 00:35:03,518 This is the one that's wedged under it. 699 00:35:04,414 --> 00:35:05,690 Scary rock, right there. 700 00:35:05,725 --> 00:35:07,794 [Kayla] Are we gonna try to pull this out? 701 00:35:07,828 --> 00:35:09,449 [Scott] That can get blasted some more 702 00:35:09,483 --> 00:35:12,311 I punched a big piece off the bottom of it yesterday. 703 00:35:12,345 --> 00:35:14,518 [Stamper] That's the only way we're gonna get this out. 704 00:35:14,552 --> 00:35:16,518 [Kayla] Okay, I'll start working on that. 705 00:35:17,069 --> 00:35:18,001 [Scott] Copy that. 706 00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:20,173 [Kayla] We really need this to work. 707 00:35:20,966 --> 00:35:21,828 [Stamper] Let's do this. 708 00:35:25,552 --> 00:35:29,035 [Wes] We'll check this out, see what's going on here. 709 00:35:29,069 --> 00:35:31,932 [narrator] At the Chute, Dustin's entire operation 710 00:35:31,966 --> 00:35:34,242 is shut down due to a broken engine. 711 00:35:38,483 --> 00:35:39,552 [Dustin] So? 712 00:35:41,587 --> 00:35:43,242 [Wes bleeps] dang it! 713 00:35:43,276 --> 00:35:45,380 And have I told you I hate this dredge? 714 00:35:46,069 --> 00:35:47,035 [Carlos chuckling] Yeah. 715 00:35:47,828 --> 00:35:49,276 [Wes] Oh, you know what? 716 00:35:49,311 --> 00:35:50,242 [Carlos] What? 717 00:35:50,932 --> 00:35:52,207 [Wes] I bet we need oil. 718 00:35:52,242 --> 00:35:53,621 The simplest thing. 719 00:35:53,656 --> 00:35:55,897 It's the first thing we should've thought about, but we didn't. 720 00:35:55,932 --> 00:35:57,759 [Dustin bleeps] oil. 721 00:35:57,794 --> 00:35:59,483 Gonna go and get some oil here. 722 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:06,001 Should do it now. 723 00:36:06,897 --> 00:36:07,966 Keep your fingers crossed. 724 00:36:10,311 --> 00:36:11,518 [engine starts] 725 00:36:11,552 --> 00:36:13,828 - [all laughing] - [Carlos] Yeah! 726 00:36:16,173 --> 00:36:19,449 We almost had to call it, but luckily we figured out what the problem was. 727 00:36:19,483 --> 00:36:21,311 Got oil in it, engine's running again, 728 00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:23,380 so we're gonna put James back in and let him finish his dive. 729 00:36:24,621 --> 00:36:27,380 Okay, James, you are safe to go back to work. 730 00:36:28,552 --> 00:36:31,173 [James on radio] Sweet. Get back to business. 731 00:36:33,001 --> 00:36:35,932 Every day in Alaska you have to have a little bit of chaos. 732 00:36:37,001 --> 00:36:39,138 [narrator] The dredge back up and running, 733 00:36:39,173 --> 00:36:43,656 James can get back to clearing the broken boulders that stand between them 734 00:36:43,690 --> 00:36:45,001 and a payday in gold. 735 00:36:46,656 --> 00:36:49,207 [Dustin] Basket overhead, tell me when you want it. 736 00:36:49,242 --> 00:36:50,794 [James] Right there will work for now. 737 00:36:51,897 --> 00:36:53,725 Back to one rock at a time, James. 738 00:36:54,414 --> 00:36:55,863 One rock at a time. 739 00:36:55,897 --> 00:36:57,656 [James] Ain't a lot of room. 740 00:36:57,690 --> 00:37:02,587 I have a feeling there's gonna be good gold in this stuff once we start removing it. 741 00:37:02,621 --> 00:37:05,173 That basket is ready to be pulled. 742 00:37:05,207 --> 00:37:06,656 [Wes] Okay, I'm gonna come out with the basket. 743 00:37:08,311 --> 00:37:10,449 [Carlos] You're moving a lot of material down there, man. 744 00:37:10,483 --> 00:37:11,345 [James] Yeah. 745 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:17,380 Couple more of those baskets and we can get outta here and*bleep* dredge. 746 00:37:20,828 --> 00:37:23,001 All right, there's a basket ready. 747 00:37:24,276 --> 00:37:27,207 [Wes] Copy that, I'm gonna start bringing the basket out. 748 00:37:27,242 --> 00:37:29,414 Man, there's some big-ass rocks we got in there. 749 00:37:29,449 --> 00:37:30,242 [Carlos] Yeah. 750 00:37:33,449 --> 00:37:35,035 [chuckling] Yeah! 751 00:37:35,069 --> 00:37:36,932 [James] I think I may be able to dredge a little bit now. 752 00:37:38,518 --> 00:37:40,380 We're close, we're close. 753 00:37:40,414 --> 00:37:43,587 There's gonna be a jackpot down here, I can smell it. 754 00:37:43,621 --> 00:37:45,242 Go ahead and dredge away. 755 00:37:45,276 --> 00:37:46,035 [James] All right. 756 00:37:48,621 --> 00:37:51,449 [narrator] James is back on virgin pay gravel. 757 00:37:51,483 --> 00:37:55,173 The gold they hope it contains could be life-changing. 758 00:37:56,518 --> 00:37:58,690 [James] Just gonna lay into some hard-pack now. 759 00:37:58,725 --> 00:38:01,138 There should be gold in this stuff. 760 00:38:01,173 --> 00:38:03,794 That'd be great, but I gotta get outta here. 761 00:38:03,828 --> 00:38:05,621 I got some business to do. 762 00:38:05,656 --> 00:38:07,552 Hey, you got this without me? 763 00:38:07,587 --> 00:38:09,138 Yeah, we can handle it. 764 00:38:09,173 --> 00:38:11,518 One more, one more problem, 765 00:38:11,552 --> 00:38:13,311 doesn't matter what it is, he's up. 766 00:38:13,345 --> 00:38:16,449 - [Wes] Okay, will do that. - [Dustin] That's it. 767 00:38:16,483 --> 00:38:19,069 [narrator] Dustin must make the last flight out of Haines 768 00:38:19,104 --> 00:38:21,138 to take care of urgent business in Juneau. 769 00:38:22,863 --> 00:38:26,173 The crew will have to dredge the gold-rich gravel without him. 770 00:38:27,518 --> 00:38:30,311 Today's been kind of a messed-up day. 771 00:38:30,345 --> 00:38:34,759 We had an engine go down. On that edge of calling it. 772 00:38:34,794 --> 00:38:36,966 I gotta rely on the guys to do this without me. 773 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:40,138 One more problem and they're gonna call it, so, I'm out. 774 00:38:41,587 --> 00:38:42,518 They have to do their thing. 775 00:38:54,138 --> 00:38:55,449 [Stamper on radio] I'm right here. 776 00:38:55,483 --> 00:38:57,276 Going down to the bottom. 777 00:38:57,311 --> 00:39:01,656 [narrator] Up at House Rock, Stamper is two hours into his dive. 778 00:39:01,690 --> 00:39:04,932 Fighting to overcome his fears of low-vis diving. 779 00:39:06,414 --> 00:39:08,380 [Kayla] All right, we got those drilled. 780 00:39:08,414 --> 00:39:11,828 I could use two powerheads and six pieces, please. 781 00:39:11,863 --> 00:39:15,414 [Paul] Two powerheads and six pieces, copy that, coming right up. 782 00:39:27,380 --> 00:39:28,173 [Kayla] All right. 783 00:39:29,518 --> 00:39:31,414 Coming up. Stamper? 784 00:39:31,449 --> 00:39:33,069 - [Stamper] Yeah. - [Kayla] Ready to blow. 785 00:39:34,345 --> 00:39:36,483 [Stamper] Okay. I'm coming up. 786 00:39:37,794 --> 00:39:39,001 [Scott] All right. Both divers are cleared. 787 00:39:39,966 --> 00:39:41,690 I'm going hot. 788 00:39:41,725 --> 00:39:42,932 - [Kayla] Ready? - [Stamper] Yeah. 789 00:39:42,966 --> 00:39:44,863 [Scott] And three, two, one. 790 00:39:45,345 --> 00:39:46,276 [explosion] 791 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:48,794 [Scott] Boom shaka laka! 792 00:39:48,828 --> 00:39:50,380 [Stamper] I felt that one. 793 00:39:50,414 --> 00:39:52,587 [Scott] All right. Disconnecting. 794 00:39:53,828 --> 00:39:55,449 - [Scott] Get back after it. - [Stamper] Okay. 795 00:39:56,483 --> 00:39:57,828 [Kayla] All right. Going in. 796 00:39:58,863 --> 00:39:59,759 [Stamper] Wow. 797 00:39:59,794 --> 00:40:02,207 It blew up, but it didn't break it. 798 00:40:02,242 --> 00:40:05,483 [Kayla] There's cracks. You got a pry bar? 799 00:40:05,518 --> 00:40:08,621 - [Stamper] Yeah. - [Kayla] I just want that off the bottom 800 00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:10,518 -'cause we'll be able to pull it out. - [Stamper] Yeah. 801 00:40:10,552 --> 00:40:13,621 - Here's the pry bar. - [Kayla] This part's coming off. 802 00:40:13,656 --> 00:40:15,035 [Stamper] Yeah, let me get above it. 803 00:40:16,449 --> 00:40:18,518 *bleep*, it's moving. 804 00:40:18,552 --> 00:40:20,242 - [Kayla] Yeah, it's going loose. - [Stamper] It's moving. 805 00:40:20,276 --> 00:40:22,966 - Get up here. - [Kayla speaking indistinctly] 806 00:40:23,001 --> 00:40:25,414 I'm just gonna throw it down and we can pick it up later. 807 00:40:25,449 --> 00:40:26,414 [Stamper] Okay. 808 00:40:26,449 --> 00:40:27,932 [Paul] You know, some of that shale rock, 809 00:40:27,966 --> 00:40:30,552 it doesn't break all the way in half when we first blow them up. 810 00:40:30,587 --> 00:40:31,863 When you've got somebody below you 811 00:40:31,897 --> 00:40:33,173 and you're taking this chunk of rock off, 812 00:40:33,207 --> 00:40:34,690 you gotta make sure they're out of the way 813 00:40:34,725 --> 00:40:36,449 so you don't throw that rock on top of them. 814 00:40:36,483 --> 00:40:40,173 With no visibility, it's really hard to tell where the other diver is. 815 00:40:40,207 --> 00:40:41,483 [Stamper] All right. Roll it. 816 00:40:41,518 --> 00:40:43,035 [Kayla] Man, this thing just shattered. 817 00:40:43,069 --> 00:40:45,276 - [Stamper] There it is. Watch yourself. - [Kayla] Watch out. Watch out. 818 00:40:45,311 --> 00:40:46,966 - [Stamper] Stay back. - [Kayla] Whoa, watch out! 819 00:40:47,001 --> 00:40:48,001 - [rumbling] - [Stamper] Kayla! 820 00:40:48,828 --> 00:40:49,725 [Kayla speaks indistinctly] 821 00:40:54,966 --> 00:40:56,483 [Kayla speaks indistinctly on radio] 822 00:40:57,794 --> 00:40:59,483 [Stamper bleeps] It's moving. 823 00:40:59,518 --> 00:41:03,725 [narrator] 16 feet deep, in near zero visibility, 824 00:41:03,759 --> 00:41:08,069 Kayla and Stamper are attempting some of the most dangerous mining there is... 825 00:41:09,587 --> 00:41:10,966 [Stamper] Watch yourself. 826 00:41:11,001 --> 00:41:14,380 [narrator] ...breaking apart boulders they can barely see. 827 00:41:15,794 --> 00:41:18,001 - [Stamper] Stay back. There it is! - [Kayla] Whoa, watch out! 828 00:41:18,035 --> 00:41:19,001 [Stamper] Kayla! 829 00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:22,001 [Kayla] I'm above it. I'm above it. 830 00:41:22,035 --> 00:41:25,242 [Stamper] Oh, my gosh. If that would have fell on us... 831 00:41:25,276 --> 00:41:28,069 That rock has definitely been a team effort to get out. 832 00:41:28,104 --> 00:41:29,759 *bleep* annihilated it. 833 00:41:29,794 --> 00:41:31,552 ♪ Bye-bye, rock! ♪ [laughs] 834 00:41:31,587 --> 00:41:34,311 - I think that's small enough, we can pull it out. - [Stamper] Yeah. 835 00:41:35,483 --> 00:41:37,242 [Paul] Look at that. 836 00:41:37,276 --> 00:41:38,932 All right. Set her down right there. Yeah. 837 00:41:42,104 --> 00:41:45,311 Nice. Moving some rocks. 838 00:41:45,345 --> 00:41:46,414 [Stamper] All right. Take it up. 839 00:41:46,449 --> 00:41:48,690 [Scott] Copy that. Basket coming up. 840 00:41:48,725 --> 00:41:51,311 [Stamper] Man, we've got some real estate opened up for sure. 841 00:41:51,345 --> 00:41:53,242 [Scott] That's*bleep* great, dude. 842 00:41:53,276 --> 00:41:55,207 - [Stamper] Good job, guys. - [Kayla] Hell, yeah. 843 00:41:55,242 --> 00:41:56,966 [Paul] All right. Set it right there. 844 00:41:59,621 --> 00:42:01,138 All right. Pick it up. 845 00:42:06,311 --> 00:42:08,345 [narrator] The boulder removed, 846 00:42:08,380 --> 00:42:10,828 Kayla's crew are through the silt layer 847 00:42:10,863 --> 00:42:14,276 and put in another two hours dredging the gravel beneath. 848 00:42:15,483 --> 00:42:18,518 [Kayla on radio] 849 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:22,345 [Paul] Yeah. 850 00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:24,759 [Stamper] I think we might actually find some gold down here. 851 00:42:24,794 --> 00:42:26,345 [Scott] Attaboy. 852 00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:29,483 We got a lot of rocks blowed up, got them out, and game on for these guys. 853 00:42:29,518 --> 00:42:31,207 They get to sit there and dredge, dredge, dredge. 854 00:42:31,242 --> 00:42:32,897 Hopefully, they'll find some bedrock. 855 00:42:32,932 --> 00:42:34,069 Hopefully, they'll find some gold. 856 00:42:35,345 --> 00:42:37,001 [Stamper on radio] 857 00:42:38,759 --> 00:42:40,001 [Kayla] Yeah, I think we're done. 858 00:42:42,035 --> 00:42:42,966 Diver coming up. 859 00:42:43,828 --> 00:42:44,759 Man, I'm beat. 860 00:42:46,138 --> 00:42:47,345 [Stamper] All right. I'm coming up. 861 00:42:47,380 --> 00:42:48,138 [Scott] All right. 862 00:42:54,414 --> 00:42:55,828 [Paul] Good dive today, man. 863 00:42:55,863 --> 00:42:57,828 [Stamper] Thank you for taking care of me while I was down there. 864 00:42:57,863 --> 00:42:59,552 [Paul] Hell, yeah. You moved a lot of big rocks. 865 00:42:59,587 --> 00:43:04,001 [narrator] Completing a mammoth four-hour dive in low visibility, 866 00:43:04,035 --> 00:43:07,449 Stamper has finally overcome his fear. 867 00:43:07,483 --> 00:43:08,449 [Paul] We've all been there. 868 00:43:08,483 --> 00:43:10,104 We've all started in this water. 869 00:43:10,138 --> 00:43:11,449 You learn to dive like this. 870 00:43:11,483 --> 00:43:13,173 You learn to feel your way around. 871 00:43:13,207 --> 00:43:15,690 The more he does it, the better he's gonna get at it. 872 00:43:15,725 --> 00:43:18,207 [Kayla] I'm excited to see what's in the box. 873 00:43:18,242 --> 00:43:21,380 [narrator] Just six ounces of gold banked all season, 874 00:43:21,414 --> 00:43:24,207 Kayla's crew are desperate for a big payday. 875 00:43:26,207 --> 00:43:27,966 - [Kayla] You can shut that one off. - [Paul] All right. 876 00:43:29,345 --> 00:43:31,966 I saw one piece when I was down there. 877 00:43:32,001 --> 00:43:35,001 It was way down at the bottom stuck in a rusty crack. 878 00:43:35,035 --> 00:43:36,483 [Paul] Oh, okay. 879 00:43:36,518 --> 00:43:40,035 [Kayla] It wasn't very big. So, there should be at least some fine. 880 00:43:43,035 --> 00:43:43,932 [Scott] How many pounds? 881 00:43:45,069 --> 00:43:47,104 [Paul] Nothing. Nada. 882 00:43:47,138 --> 00:43:49,104 - Zip. Zero. Zilch. - [Kayla] But... 883 00:43:49,759 --> 00:43:51,311 A lot of material got moved, 884 00:43:51,345 --> 00:43:53,483 which probably added another feet of depth. 885 00:43:53,518 --> 00:43:55,518 [Paul] Really? Nice. 886 00:43:55,552 --> 00:43:58,794 [Kayla] Stamper and I moved a lot of material. We got a lot of rocks moved. 887 00:43:58,828 --> 00:44:01,828 So, that's definitely good progress. 888 00:44:01,863 --> 00:44:03,207 We just need to keep plugging away 889 00:44:03,242 --> 00:44:04,656 and pushing forward and hopefully get us 890 00:44:04,690 --> 00:44:06,725 way more gold than what we're seeing right now. 891 00:44:06,759 --> 00:44:09,069 Because it's getting later in the season 892 00:44:09,104 --> 00:44:12,069 and we need to get this all finished, no matter what it takes. 893 00:44:18,138 --> 00:44:19,518 [Carlos] We're finishing up the day right now. 894 00:44:19,552 --> 00:44:22,173 After the scare that James had losing the engine, 895 00:44:22,207 --> 00:44:25,001 he actually took it like a champ and went right back in. 896 00:44:25,035 --> 00:44:26,828 So, right now he's just dredging. 897 00:44:26,863 --> 00:44:31,932 [narrator] At the Chute, Dustin's sudden departure has left the crew a man down. 898 00:44:34,138 --> 00:44:35,449 [James] Dredging fool today. 899 00:44:36,828 --> 00:44:38,897 [narrator] But there's no stopping James. 900 00:44:38,932 --> 00:44:43,794 He's dredging virgin gravel, as he powers down to bedrock. 901 00:44:43,828 --> 00:44:46,794 There's gotta be a ton of gold in the bottom if it's that deep. 902 00:44:46,828 --> 00:44:48,656 [James] I'm down pretty deep. I know that. 903 00:44:48,690 --> 00:44:50,621 And I can keep going down. 904 00:44:50,656 --> 00:44:53,311 [Wes] So, we're obviously not gonna finish this today. 905 00:44:53,345 --> 00:44:54,518 I didn't think we would, 906 00:44:54,552 --> 00:44:56,449 but we know we're getting closer. 907 00:44:56,483 --> 00:44:58,345 [James] Yeah, it's good and deep. 908 00:45:01,621 --> 00:45:03,138 [engine sputters and stops] 909 00:45:03,173 --> 00:45:05,276 [Wes] James, come up. Come up. 910 00:45:05,897 --> 00:45:07,380 That engine died again. 911 00:45:07,414 --> 00:45:08,518 [James] Aw,*bleep*. 912 00:45:08,552 --> 00:45:10,242 [Wes] Yeah, diver up, we're just gonna call it. 913 00:45:10,276 --> 00:45:11,449 [James] Okay. Coming up. 914 00:45:12,242 --> 00:45:13,001 [grunts] 915 00:45:14,552 --> 00:45:17,035 [Wes] We gotta figure out what's going on with this engine. 916 00:45:17,069 --> 00:45:18,345 I don't know what's going on. 917 00:45:20,276 --> 00:45:21,138 [James speaks indistinctly] 918 00:45:22,242 --> 00:45:23,414 Let me catch my breath. 919 00:45:25,173 --> 00:45:26,690 [sighs] 920 00:45:26,725 --> 00:45:29,035 [narrator] For the second time on his dive, 921 00:45:29,069 --> 00:45:32,104 the rebuilt junkyard engine stalled, 922 00:45:32,138 --> 00:45:36,932 leaving James at 16 feet without air. 923 00:45:36,966 --> 00:45:39,794 This is twice we've left the diver with no air underneath. 924 00:45:39,828 --> 00:45:41,449 We're gonna call the dive for today. 925 00:45:41,483 --> 00:45:43,380 James got a bunch of material moved, 926 00:45:43,414 --> 00:45:46,035 but it was absolutely a tough day. 927 00:45:46,069 --> 00:45:49,001 - [Carlos] Good job, James! - [Wes] Good job, James. 928 00:45:49,035 --> 00:45:52,242 If anything could have went wrong today, everything went wrong. 929 00:45:52,276 --> 00:45:56,276 Fricking motor died twice. Ran out of air. 930 00:45:56,311 --> 00:45:58,069 Can't see nothing. 931 00:45:58,104 --> 00:46:02,035 Soon as they said, "Come up. Diver up." I had to come up. 932 00:46:02,069 --> 00:46:06,035 [narrator] James put in five hours dredging on virgin gravel. 933 00:46:06,069 --> 00:46:07,966 The sluice should give a sign 934 00:46:08,001 --> 00:46:12,242 if Dustin's gamble on the Chute is going to pay off. 935 00:46:12,276 --> 00:46:14,380 [Wes] Now, let's see what you found. 936 00:46:14,414 --> 00:46:17,276 - See if Carlos remembers what gold looks like. - [Carlos] Yeah, right? 937 00:46:17,311 --> 00:46:18,897 It's been such a *bleep* damn long time. 938 00:46:20,932 --> 00:46:22,207 - [Carlos] There it is. - [Wes] Oh! 939 00:46:22,242 --> 00:46:24,932 - [Carlos] Look at all that. - [Wes] Oh! Oh, my *bleep*! 940 00:46:24,966 --> 00:46:28,207 - [James] That's a nice nugget right there. - [Carlos] Wow, dude! 941 00:46:28,242 --> 00:46:30,966 - Yep! - [Dustin] Oh, my *bleep*, dude. 942 00:46:31,001 --> 00:46:32,656 - [Carlos] Whoo! - [James] Oh, my *bleep*. 943 00:46:32,690 --> 00:46:35,035 - [Wes] Look at that piece of gold! - [Carlos] Yeah, man. 944 00:46:35,069 --> 00:46:36,966 [Carlos] That's a quarter-ounce right there. 945 00:46:37,001 --> 00:46:38,932 [James laughing] Oh, my *bleep*. 946 00:46:38,966 --> 00:46:41,104 That's like an inch and an eighth long. 947 00:46:41,138 --> 00:46:42,932 [Carlos] Now who's got the gold, guys? 948 00:46:42,966 --> 00:46:45,104 [narrator] These nuggets could be the start 949 00:46:45,138 --> 00:46:47,518 of the massive payday that's been trapped 950 00:46:47,552 --> 00:46:49,759 at the bottom of the plunge pool. 951 00:46:49,794 --> 00:46:51,552 [Wes] I knew we'd start getting to this gold. 952 00:46:51,587 --> 00:46:53,311 - We're not there yet-- - [Carlos] Yeah, we're not there yet. 953 00:46:53,345 --> 00:46:56,276 - [James] But it's starting. - [Carlos] But that's a good indication, man. 954 00:46:56,311 --> 00:47:00,035 - We're back on the gold. - [Wes] I mean, I know Dustin was starting to worry, 955 00:47:00,069 --> 00:47:02,345 but this hole is deeper than we think it is. 956 00:47:02,380 --> 00:47:04,725 Just imagine what the bedrock's gonna be. 957 00:47:04,759 --> 00:47:06,483 There's gonna be a lot of gold like that in there. 958 00:47:06,518 --> 00:47:09,345 It's gonna be more gold in there than we've ever seen. 959 00:47:09,380 --> 00:47:10,587 [James] We're back on the gold! 960 00:47:10,621 --> 00:47:13,242 After all this *bleep*, it's paying off. 961 00:47:13,276 --> 00:47:15,552 - [Carlos] Good job, bro. - [Wes] Good job, James. 962 00:47:15,587 --> 00:47:17,173 [Carlos] Yeah, dude. We're back on the gold. 963 00:47:17,207 --> 00:47:19,621 It was one fricking crazy day. 964 00:47:19,656 --> 00:47:24,242 We have not hit bottom yet, but we still found gold. 965 00:47:24,276 --> 00:47:27,414 Big gold. Nuggets. 966 00:47:27,449 --> 00:47:31,966 So, back on the gold and it might be a good, good winter. 967 00:47:35,690 --> 00:47:38,897 [narrator] On the next Gold Rush: White Water... 968 00:47:38,932 --> 00:47:40,483 Time to get in the water and find some gold. 969 00:47:40,518 --> 00:47:42,311 [Carlos] It's exciting! 970 00:47:42,345 --> 00:47:44,414 [Wes] We're finally gonna see what's at the bottom of this chute! 971 00:47:44,449 --> 00:47:45,932 All summer, we've been struggling. 972 00:47:45,966 --> 00:47:48,207 Need a *bleep* payday here! 973 00:47:48,242 --> 00:47:50,725 [man] That rock right there weighs more than a pickup truck. 974 00:47:50,759 --> 00:47:52,966 [Wes] Go! Whoa! 975 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:56,035 We are gonna lose this haul today if we don't finish. 976 00:47:56,069 --> 00:47:57,414 I see gold, dude! 977 00:47:57,449 --> 00:47:58,725 [Dustin] This is amazing. 978 00:47:58,759 --> 00:48:00,380 [Carlos] Holy *bleep*! 979 00:48:00,414 --> 00:48:03,483 It's gonna go down in history as our best day yet! 979 00:48:04,305 --> 00:49:04,266 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm